Robert Fulghum Quotes

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.